☁️Storage Node

OS Requirement

Recommended OS	# of CPUs	Memory	Bandwidth	Public Network IP
Linux 64-bit Intel / AMD	≥ 4	≥ 8	≥ 5 Mbps	required

Installation

Docker

# Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

# Add the repository to Apt sources:
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

Firewall Configuration

ufw allow 4001

Prepare your CESS Wallet

• Earning Account: Used to receive mining rewards.

• Staking Account: Used to pay for staking TCESS.

• Signature Account: Used to sign blockchain transactions. If no staking account is specified, this account will also be used to pay staking TCESS.

For this section, I recommend you to create 2 wallets. One for earning and one for staking.

Install Cess Client

Please go to https://github.com/CESSProject/cess-nodeadm/tags to check the stable version of CESS client. For now, v0.5.3 is the stable version. I will guide you to install this version, if project update a new stable version, please change version.

Download and install

wget https://github.com/CESSProject/cess-nodeadm/archive/vx.x.x.tar.gz
tar -xvzf vx.x.x.tar.gz
cd cess-nodeadm-x.x.x/
./install.sh

You should see the last line is

Install cess nodeadm success

Stop and remove current services

If you are new, skip this.

sudo cess stop

sudo cess purge

Change CESS to testnet

sudo cess profile testnet

Set up configuration

sudo cess config set

You have some questions to answer here, please follow

Enter cess node mode from 'authority/storage/watcher': storage
Enter cess storage listener port (current: 15001, press enter to skip): # click enter to skip
Enter cess storage earnings account: # enter the account to earn reward, should start from "c..."
Enter cess storage signature account phrase: # enter your signature account mnemonic (12 words)
Enter cess storage disk path: # the disk path, choose your biggest folder
Enter cess storage space, by GB unit (current: 300, press enter to skip): # if your vps has 3TiB, type 3000, it means 3000 GiB
Enter the number of CPU cores used for mining; Your CPU cores are 4
  (current: 3, 0 means all cores are used; press enter to skip): 
Enter the staker\'s payment account if you have another (if it is the same as the signature account, press enter to skip): # Just press enter to skip
Enter the reserved TEE worker endpoints (separate multiple values with commas, press enter to skip): # Enter to skip
Set configurations successfully

You should see Set configurations successfully in the end of those questions

Start the Node

cess start

You should see somethings similar as

[+] Running 3/0
 ✔ Container chain       Running                                                0.0s
 ✔ Container bucket      Running                                                0.0s
 ✔ Container watchtower  Running                                                0.0s

Check your bucket

docker logs bucket

Check your chain

docker logs chain

Your chain will be sync in 1 or 2 days

Check bucket status

sudo cess bucket stat

You will see the table showing your bucket status when your chain synchronized successfully